The recent downpours have devastated the operations of scores of farmers on the island’s largest land lease project with some estimating losses as high as $15 000.While many are still trying to salvage what little produce they can, others are left scratching their heads about how to bounce back from the setback.On Thursday when Barbados TODAY visited the Spring Hall, St Lucy farming district farm assistant Lisle Marshall said he had four acres in production with sweet pepper, watermelon, pumpkin and cucumber and the rain significantly affected the crops.“It was real, real devastating. I couldn’t even get a full week’s work. I worked two days or a day and a half so it wasn’t easy,” he said. “A lot of the melons cracked and spoiled. Any good agriculturalist would know that with all of this rain these crops get fungus and they would perish so there isn’t anything you could do about it. And this happened to the cucumbers too.
